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Was Copernicus more revolutionary than Newton

Anonymous Wed 21 Aug 02:09:07 2019 No.10904792 View Reply Original Report

Quoted By: >>10905255 >>10905261

why is Newton often considered a greater scientist than him?

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Anonymous Wed 21 Aug 2019 06:52:09 No.10905255 Report

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>>10904792
Depends on what your opinion of revolutionary is. Astronomers will probably still argue Newton but idk. They were both pretty lit in there own right.

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Anonymous Wed 21 Aug 2019 06:54:56 No.10905261 Report

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>>10904792
Pretty hard to top Calculus AND Physics.
Even post-Einstein everyone still just uses Newton's Physics for 99.99% of practical applications.

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Anonymous Wed 21 Aug 2019 21:10:09 No.10906674 Report

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>>10905255
Johannes Gensfleisch zur Laden zum Gutenberg
>>10905261
Poles Lives Matter

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Anonymous Wed 21 Aug 2019 21:22:44 No.10906701 Report

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Nicolaus Copernicus was born on 19 February 1473 in the city of Toru? (Thorn), in the province of Royal Prussia, in the Crown of the Kingdom of Poland.

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Anonymous Wed 21 Aug 2019 21:28:06 No.10906717 Report

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>>10906674
Round earth. Flat earth. No earth.
>>10906701
Split the Moon. Split the Sun.

>>10904627

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Anonymous Wed 21 Aug 2019 22:47:43 No.10906889 Report

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>>10906674
Copernicus was as polish as Edison was black.

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Anonymous Thu 22 Aug 2019 00:48:20 No.10907074 Report

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>>10906889
The Watzenrode family, like the Kopernik family, had come from Silesia
from near Swidnica (Schweidnitz), and after 1360 had settled in Toru?.
The Modlibogs were a prominent Polish family whom have been well
known in Poland's history since 1271. Thomas Edison was black.

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Anonymous Thu 22 Aug 2019 00:50:53 No.10907080 Report

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Printing Press
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Anonymous Thu 22 Aug 2019 01:32:37 No.10907171 Report

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Why can't both be true?
Copernicus's geocentric model was more "revolutionary" than anything Newton did because it literally reversed the model of the universe that had been widely accepted for over 1000 years.
However, Newton's contributions to physics, math, optics, and other fields were both more varied and more useful to subsequent generations of thinkers than Copernicus, even if some of them built on his model.
Copernicus turned the world right-side up and Newton brought the tools to study it.

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Anonymous Thu 22 Aug 2019 02:59:48 No.10907448 Report

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>>10907171
Sure can in Utopia, but Not on earth.
One's a Pollock. Other's a Britfag.

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